Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

So let me get this straight, (Assuming current contract rates) you are advocating making $130hr at year three and $185 at year 15 just so you can feel like you're keeping up with inflation and not losing buying power. How about just start making that $185 at year 3? Yes you would be losing buying power assuming year 3 was the top of the scale but you'd be making that pay rate sooner and longer. Either I don't understand you or you are talkin crazy.

FYI there will be 4 year narrow body captains at the legacies in the not so near future so saying that their rates below year 8 don't apply is just naive to what the age of the current pilot population is. Further, even if what you say is true and there will never be sub-eight year captains at the legacies, it really doesn't matter because a captain is still a captain and carries a certain responsibility. That responsibility requires to be paid a lot more than a three year legacy FO on the same aircraft.

I respectfully request you pull your head out of your ass.